Aging Coder

Random Musings on Technology

Introduction Well over a year ago, Google (well, at least Google developers built it – it’s said to be made with “contributions by Google and the community”ref), introduced yet another Mobile Toolkit that allows building apps for both iOS and...

Brief This genesis of this article was a conversation attempting to explain the reasons for choosing one Javascript Framework (or really collection of Frameworks) over another to a non Frontend developer. It was remarked that many managers, entrepreneurs, and clients...

The State of Mobile Frameworks 2016 It’s been over 2 years since I posted The State of Mobile Frameworks and a fair amount has changed in that time, so now is probably a good time to dive back into that...

Cordova or Native? The number one question I get asked, both by as a consultant and in the emails I get from readers of this blog is “Should I use Phonegap or write a native app” Side note: when asked...

Finally after three and a half years, I’m all in on TypeScript. What really pushed me over the line was creating a fairly large SPA (single page app) in Angular and TypeScript. Once you got around the tooling (getting a...